Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant The Fat Duck has reopened today.

Blumenthal said it been given a clean bill of health by authorities after a mystery sickness bug afflicted diners.

‘I am delighted that the health protection agency and the local environmental health office have given us the all clear to open the restaurant,’ Blumenthal said in a statement.

‘Obviously we are overjoyed to be able to get back to business as normal.’

A spokeswoman told Reuters the 40-seat restaurant already had a full reservations book for the coming weeks with Blumenthal overseeing the kitchen.

The Fat Duck charges £130 ($185) for its 17-course tasting menu which includes snail porridge and, nitro scrambled egg and bacon ice-cream.

Health and environmental inspectors could find nothing that connected the illnesses to the restaurant. However they have requested that seafood is not served until all test results are back.

Written by Rebecca Gibb

Rebecca Gibb MW
Rebecca Gibb MW
Decanter Magazine & DWWA Judge

Rebecca Gibb MW is a wine journalist and editor who has also founded Bamboozled games, ‘the world’s first wine and spirit puzzle makers’. Having spent six years living in New Zealand, she has recently returned to her native north-east England. While in New Zealand, she became a Master of Wine, graduating top of her class and winning the Madame Bollinger medal for excellence in tasting. A former winner of both the UK’s young wine writer of the year and the Louis Roederer Emerging Wine Writer, her first book The Wines of New Zealand was published in 2018. She also runs wine events and has her own consultancy business The Drinks Project. She was a judge at the 2019 Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).